Gay Men’s Network

1/ Our longform response to the draft conversion practice bill is now available on our website at gaymensnetwork.co.uk.

This bill is broad, unnecessary and offers poorer protection to gay people than existing laws. It is a bill about gender ideology, not gay rights.

80-90% of the young patients at the Tavistock were same sex attracted

The misleadingly named "conversion ban" will make it a crime to say to a teenager "I think you are gay and I want you to grow up accepting your body, I do not think you are the opposite sex"

This is bad law

1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this.

gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters

1/ The GMN analysis of the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill (NI) is now available on our website.

This Private Member's Bill is legally incoherent and it offers worse protections for gay men and lesbians than existing NI law.

gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters

1/ We will shortly be publishing our legal analysis of the Northern Irish Conversion Practices Private Members Bill.

This Bill claims to protect gay people but has a sentencing ceiling of 2 years compared to sentences up to life for standard equivalent crimes.

This is wrong.